* WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013 * *Shortlisted
for the 2013 Costa Biography Prize* * Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL
Ondaatje Prize * * Shortlisted for Banff Adventure Travel Prize * *
Shortlisted for Saltire Book of the Year Award * Gavin Francis
fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as
the base-camp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British
research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is
said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International
Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in winter.
Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and solitude,
with few distractions and very little human history, but also a
rare oppurtunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species
truly at home in the Antarctic. Following the penguins throughout
the year -- from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter
darkness -- Gavin Francis explores a world of great beauty conjured
from the simplest elements, the hardship of living at 50 DegreesC
below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community
bring.
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